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| After probing out some large rocks at depth I'm encouraging my sister on her second dig with me to continue carefully in case she comes across a bottle. At this point she has recovered a .58 minie, some buck balls and random pieces of glass. |
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| My turn in the hole and I've uncovered a circular iron object that has us guessing. |
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| It is so rusted that it cannot be removed intact and it doesn't register as metal on the pinpointer. It appears to be a rusted out bucket as further work reveals sides going down another 10" or so. |
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| Directly underneath the object was this little gem. Protected from the many rocks for 150 years. Held here by my sister Debbie. |
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| 12-sided ink cleaned. The cloudy white occlusions are actually glass imperfections from the blowing process. |
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| Pontil mark |
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| Half Dime recovered a week before a few feet away from this excavation. The third 1861 found in the small search area. Possibly a coin spill. Hope there's more to come. |
